Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp has sold more than a quarter of its shares to Chinese production and distribution company Fundamental Films. The US$67 million hands Fundamental a 27.9% stake in the France-based film and television production company through subsidiary FF Motion Invest. Besson’s holding company, Front Line, will remain EuropaCorp’s main shareholder with a 31.6%, diluted […]
Telefonica has acquired a package of drama series from StudioCanal for its Spanish pay TV and SVOD services. The titles included are predominantly originally English-language, with Section Zéro (pictured), the new series from Braquo creator Olivier Marchal, the exception. Other titles include novelist Harlan Coben’s mystery drama The Five, which debuted on Sky in the […]
Russian broadcaster Channel One has acquired edgy French drama Section Zero. The free-TV station will launch the 8x1hr show in August, playing episodes back to back between August 1-4. StudioCanal distributes the show and struck the Russian deal, having already shopped it to SBS in Australia. Section Zero, a cop show set in a dystopian […]
TV series revenues at Luc Besson’s production and distribution company EuropaCorp inched up in the most recent nine months. Sales totalled €25 million (US$28.5 million) for the first three quarters of the company’s financial year, a 2.3% increase on the same period a year earlier. EuropaCorp said that delivery of the final episodes of drama […]
